As libraries are increasingly charged with long-term preservation of materials, they are having to make difficult decisions about what can be preserved and for how long. This chapter explores how open access materials are ...

Indiana University Libraries' cooperative collection development for a new India Studies Program during a four year period (1998-2001)is the focus. An appendix features practical tips for working in Hindi and Sanskrit languages.

This review describes the services offered in an information commons that primarily serves undergraduate students at a large research university. This paper provides background information on the implementation of a ...

A comprehensive listing of and biographical information about the native Russians who lived in Bloomington in the early years of Russian Language instruction at both Indiana University and in the affiliated U.S. Air Force ...

Libraries and publishers are paying increasing attention to the information experiences of today’s emerging scholars – but what is the underlying value in understanding the researcher experience? What have we learned about ...

In early 2011, an Indiana University Libraries task force was charged with selecting an open source discovery layer to serve as the public interface for IU's online catalog, IUCAT. This process included creating a rubric ...

Much of the collection development literature focuses on selection and management of collection content, but little focuses on the art of managing individual funds within the context of an institution's library materials ...

The application of ethnographic methods to library instructional programs can provide opportunities for students to develop their own self-awareness and advance their thought processes. In addition, these methods have the ...

This classic article discusses research-based writing assignments. Schwegler and Shamoon sought to identify differences between college students’ and college instructors’ conceptions of research and research paper assignments, ...

This chapter describes the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries' experience of contracting with two consultants to help review goals for the Libraries' Web site, to lead usability tests with various user groups, and ...